In Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL or WSL2), there is not system framework, so utilities that depend on it fail. This includes timedatectl which R uses in Sys.timezone(). The timedatectl utility is present on Linux systems installed under WSL/WSL2, but is non-functional. So, when Sys.timezone() checks for Sys.which("timedatectl"), it receives a false positive. The subsequent methods after this if () do work, however.
This can be fixed if line 42 of Sys.timezone() were changed from: if (nzchar(Sys.which("timedatectl"))) { to: if (nzchar(Sys.which("timedatectl")) && !grepl("microsoft", system("uname -r", intern = TRUE), ignore.case = TRUE)) { "uname -r" returns for example: "5.4.72-microsoft-standard-WSL2" So checking for "microsoft" or "WSL" would probably work. Brenton Wiernik [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel